Stephanie Dosen

Playing lively but ethereal acoustic folk with a playfully surrealistic lyrical outlook, Stephanie Dosen has earned a following for her striking blonde beauty and cheerfully eccentric persona as well as her music. To take her at her word, Dosen was born on a farm in Wisconsin, where her family raised peacocks. After taking piano lessons as a young girl, Dosen rescued an old guitar from the attic and began teaching herself to play while the rest of her family was busy harvesting feathers from their birds. Dosen began writing original songs and played them for a pair of animals that had become her companions, a fox and a swan; lacking hands, they applauded her recitals by blinking their eyes. By 2002, Dosen had been performing her songs to human audiences and self-released a debut album, a collection of original songs titled Ghosts, Mice & Vagabonds. After she posted a few of her songs on her MySpace page, Dosen's music came to the attention of Simon Raymonde, a former member of the Cocteau Twins and head of the prestigious Bella Union Records label. Dosen, a passionate Cocteau Twins fan, was thrilled to hear from Raymonde, and when he offered to sign her to his label and produce her next album, she immediately agreed. Dosen pulled up stakes and relocated to the U.K., where with Raymonde's assistance she made her second full-length album, 2007's A Lily for the Spectre. The album was a critical favorite and enjoyed unexpected commercial success in England, where the song "This Joy" was released as a single. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

I discovered Stephanie through Massive Attack's Tear Drop, and immediately fell in love with her voice. I had heard it on the tv show, House and ran to my pc to google it.

In 2011, I learned to knit. I threw myself in to the knitting online community, ravelry. There, I found a knitware designer that goes by the name tiny owl knits. I fell for the whimsy and charm in all her designs. Soon, I found myself in her group, along with about 6 thousand other yarnies. One day I logged on to find a mes

Although I doubt the farm stories, hey, I wasn't there. Her songs don't need external support. They stand well on their own. Come to Wichita, Ks. and fill our new arena! Or better, a small venue ie Robin Macy's place (ex dixie chick who came home to roost in Belle Plain, Ks., teach, sing, and enjoy an arboretum that's heavenly).

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bopherina

She is my favorite artist. I am writing a book right now, and I find her music so inspiring even though I know that most of the songs have a different story than what I make up. I have many favorite artists, and when I think about it I think, "oh. she is good, but kind of annoying to constantly listen to her, but then I put my ipod on shuffle and one of her songs come up and I think "This is SO good!!!"